I am using one of the canned Orion alerts ("High VM CPU Utilization") to monitor to CPU usage of my VMs. It is configured to trigger when the CPU load hits 70 (which I presume is 70%). However, in the alert emails, it says that the CPU Load is much smaller (3.562, 19.139, and similar). Does this alert not do what I think it does, or is something misconfigured somewhere?

UPDATE: It appears that the alert is triggering on "nothing". When I check the status of the machine, it shows that the CPU is in the sing digits or low teens, and yet the alert is still listed as active. When I go to the final page of the alert configuration, it says that there are 0 items affected by the alert. So why am I still receiving emails? I've tried disabling and re-enabling the alert, but that did not resolve it.

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